Negotiation talks are the best way to solve anything. We must replace wars and weapons with negotiations and talks.
AKBAR GANJIThe lower strata are suffering all kinds of oppression and the injustice that is inflicted upon them has many faces and many facets.
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You cannot bring democracy to a country by attacking it.
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I am only speaking of my own behalf.
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Recently, we witnessed massive demonstration by Iranian woman in the 7th of Tir square, and it was brutally suppressed.
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Well-to-do classes are using all kinds of obvious and not-so-obvious benefits that this regime has created for it.
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When I’m speaking, I’m speaking only for myself. At the same time, I know that these ideas have wide support among the Iranian population.
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If you look at the discourse before the revolution, whether it is the left communist, whether it is the right secularist.
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The solutions to the problems of the distraught lower strata of society are problems that can only be solved in the context of an overall political, cultural, economic development.
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They are the kind of dishonest and populist slogans that we are not willing to use.
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Even theories of secularism are constantly being revised and changed.
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They lie on railroads, they tie themselves to the gates.
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In the West, when all of these reactors, nuclear reactors, are matters…part of the public domain, there are all kinds of supervision over them.
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All manners of freedom, including freedom of expression, freedom of conscious, freedom of thought…it accepts tolerance. But it is not an atheist society.
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He never made economic promises to people and as a result, he never led to dissatisfaction in this perspective. Because they need to get votes, they use misleading slogans. And this leads to rising expectations. I had a personal experience.
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We’ve had 60 years of intellectual development in Iran. How can we have the same system?
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The most important dichotomy that I make for a society is between those who support democracy and human rights, and those who oppose it.
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